Sell/privatise all govt owned businesses like airlines, banks, HAL, NAL ordnance factories. With the money thus generated, ensure schools for all. Educate all Indians, girls in particular. Ensure they are well fed as well. You will win any election.
Whether the government should enrich PSU employees with stock options or win the support of the poor for reforms by organising a direct cash transfer is an ideological question. However, if a government, especially one with a decisive mandate, feels diffident doing all the things which it knows are required to move economic growth to a sustainably higher trajectory, it might find that inaction too can exact a high political price.
Sell/privatise all govt owned businesses like airlines, banks, HAL, NAL ordnance factories. With the money thus generated, ensure schools for all. Educate all Indians, girls in particular. Ensure they are well fed as well. You will win any election.
Whether the government should enrich PSU employees with stock options or win the support of the poor for reforms by organising a direct cash transfer is an ideological question. However, if a government, especially one with a decisive mandate, feels diffident doing all the things which it knows are required to move economic growth to a sustainably higher trajectory, it might find that inaction too can exact a high political price.